An international research workshop organised by the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Bristol and the Holocaust Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London Workshop organisers:
-Professor Tim Cole (Bristol);
-Dr. Simone Gigliotti (Royal Holloway, University of London);
-Professor Dan Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Jennifer Edmond and Frank Fischer will succeed Conny Kristel and Tobias Blanke as DARIAH Directors. In its latest meeting the consortium's General Assembly (GA) approved the nomination proposed by a selection committee earlier this month. The Chair of the GA, Jacques Dubucs, who was also part of the committee, described the selection process as inspiring and said, "we had many applications, and they were all ranging from very good to outstanding. Finally two exceptionally good candidates were picked", Jacques concluded.

On 17 November EHRI presented itself on the Networking Day of the Dutch Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen (Network on War Sources, NOB) in Amsterdam. EHRI’s project director Conny Kristel, Veerle Vanden Daelen (responsible for investigation and identification of archives) and Annelies van Nispen (users and standards) talked for an hour to an audience of almost 100 people about various aspects of the EHRI project. The focus of the presentation was on the international collaboration that is central to EHRI.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. and Post Doctoral Candidates conducting research on the Holocaust. The application deadline is January 3, 2017 for the Fall 2017-Summer 2018 Funding Year. The maximum award amount is $20,000 per year.

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is pleased to announce the JDC Archives Documentary Film Grant. Applicants must have a proven track record as a filmmaker. Eligible films will focus on twentieth century Jewish history, humanitarian assistance, and related topics. The $10,000 grant is for post-production and/or distribution costs of a documentary film which draws on the JDC archival collections. Topics can include issues, events and personalities related to overseas Jewish communities during the last century.

EHRI partner the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History will be offering grants for research stays at the Center in Munich during 2017.

The fellowships are designed to support and foster international Holocaust research. The program is aimed at established as well as younger researchers. As we are interested in a high degree of international cooperation, applications from Europe as well as from all over the world are welcome. A topic within the field of Holocaust Studies is required in order to be eligible for one of the fellowships.

PARTHENOS, a fellow project to EHRI, is pleased to announce the workshop “Introducing PARTHENOS – Integrating the Digital Humanities“, which will be held in Prato (Italy) on 14 December 2016.

In the latest EHRI blog post, the spotlight is on a document about the Terezín ghetto from the Jewish Museum in Prague from September 5, 1942. It details statistics about the “Distribution of infirm people in the ghetto”. Statistics on the elderly and so-called “infirm” people are quite common in the departments of the Jewish Self Administration.

Neringa Latvytė from EHRI partner the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum (VGSJM) in Lithuania made a remarkable discovery when she visited the biggest market of Vilnius: a small brown glass bottle that had a bigger tale to tell. With her story she would like to encourage people to tell bigger stories by connecting objects, archives, sources and memories.

by Raul Cârstocea

In the period of the 5th to the 30th September 2016 I held an EHRI Fellowship at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, under the supervision of Dr. Karel Berkhoff. This was the first part of a combined research stay that also includes a two weeks period at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.